Dr. Nora Fayed

Biography

Dr. Fayed conducts and disseminates research on child health and wellbeing outcomes, with the mission to improve the quality of life for children of diverse abilities and their families through justice-based evidence-informed measurement and systems policy research. She has published as a senior author in top-tier journals such as JAMA Pediatrics, Neurology, CMAJ, and Value Health, and has held prestigious grants as a principal scientist, including those from SPOR and SSHRC, in addition to fellowships from CIHR and the EU Marie-Curie Program. Her core competencies include the measurement of latent constructs in childhood and adolescence, health classification, university teaching, and evaluations of health care systems. Dr. Fayed has developed and taught courses in occupational therapy research methods at the graduate level. Her research focuses on health service provision policy aimed at understanding and improving system bases for important outcomes for children and families, emphasizing the need for good measurement practices, access to data, and patient-partnered changes based on pragmatic implementation of real-world evidence. Her current research program, “Everything Counts,” is dedicated to learning what is important for children with growing disabilities and non-communicable diseases, evaluating the health and social services provided to patients and service-providers. The ultimate goal of her work is to implement changes in the system based on person-important, evidence-based outcomes.

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